"Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us."

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Source : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.6, MarcoPolo

Robert Byron

#People Quotes #Reason Quotes #Modern Quotes

“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.”
“Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.”
“I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.”
“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”
“The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.”
“Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.”
“The director of The Sopranos told me that, if I wouldn't gain weight, I would lose my job. I didn't look like the girl who ate pasta all day. This was an extra stimulation to fight my eating problems.”
“Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.”

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